Whoops! the Bishop of Willesden, Pete Broadbent, an evangelical who used to be regarded as liberal, has gone all grumpy on his facebook page about Jonathan Bartley (who contributes here) and his think tank:
Bartley and Ekklesia are self-appointed self-publicists who speak for nobody. It's a pity that they get the publicity.
Later, he elaborated on this without growing notably more tactful:
My complaint is that the media has swallowed this 'think tank' nonsense as though it gave them more credibility than the rest of the blogosphere ... Ekklesia float a pile of liberal horse manure and pretend that they're speaking for mainstream Christianity.
It's a great shame that his facebook page is accessible only to friends, so I can't link to the original of these comments, but of course bishops have lots of friends, and some of these friends have other friends who pass their wisdom on, and so it all comes out. In any case, next time Bishop Pete wants to slag off Ekklesia and the gullible media, I hope he does so here. We might get quite an interesting debate going.
